Hello everyone
I'm looking for more advice! It is to do with property and funding.
We have finally managed to find MIL a home and had a meeting about admitting her in the coming weeks. It was decided that it was OK for her to stay after her respite care as she was self funding. She currently has 31,000. We were told by the care home to let Social Services know as she will need to claim when her funds drop to 24,000. We rang SS as we had already had a meeting and thought this would be straight forward. However there is a property involved. My sister in law lives there with her two children under the age of 16. She is a widow and has lived there for 10 years. My MIL house that she lives in is divided in 3 ways. 50% is for herself and 1/3 each divided in to one for one son and the other 1/3 to the son who has died...hence his widow living there. My husband and another son are due to inherit a 1/3 each on her death. Anyway the SS are now saying that we need to be reassessed and the property has to be considered when we were formally told it didn't have to be as a family was living there. After 10 years we are desperate to put her into care as its such a strain on our marriage. Does anyone have experience of this? I should have known it would not be easy I'm worried SS will insist the house is sold therefore putting my SIL and her children out of a home! Thanks
I'm looking for more advice! It is to do with property and funding.
We have finally managed to find MIL a home and had a meeting about admitting her in the coming weeks. It was decided that it was OK for her to stay after her respite care as she was self funding. She currently has 31,000. We were told by the care home to let Social Services know as she will need to claim when her funds drop to 24,000. We rang SS as we had already had a meeting and thought this would be straight forward. However there is a property involved. My sister in law lives there with her two children under the age of 16. She is a widow and has lived there for 10 years. My MIL house that she lives in is divided in 3 ways. 50% is for herself and 1/3 each divided in to one for one son and the other 1/3 to the son who has died...hence his widow living there. My husband and another son are due to inherit a 1/3 each on her death. Anyway the SS are now saying that we need to be reassessed and the property has to be considered when we were formally told it didn't have to be as a family was living there. After 10 years we are desperate to put her into care as its such a strain on our marriage. Does anyone have experience of this? I should have known it would not be easy I'm worried SS will insist the house is sold therefore putting my SIL and her children out of a home! Thanks